Publish Web Site Content with FrontPage

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft provides a Web-based administration tool for extending Web sites. Extending a Web site means implementing features of FrontPage Server Extensions that enable the site owner to author the site in Microsoft® FrontPage® and delegate Web site ownership and Web site administration credentials. Making content available on an extended Web site is called publishing the Web site. A Web site that is not extended cannot be opened or authored in FrontPage.

Requirements

  • Credentials: Membership in the Administrators group on the local computer.

  • Tools: Iis.msc.

Recommendation

As a security best practice, log on to your computer using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the Run as command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At the command prompt, type **runas /user:**administrative_accountname mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc.

Procedures

Extending a Web site

You can use the FrontPage 2002 Server Administration tool to extend a Web site.

To extend a Web site by using the FrontPage 2002 Server Administration tool

  1. Open Administrative Tools, and then click Microsoft SharePoint Administrator.

Note

If IIS returns error 404, "The page cannot be found," check to make sure FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions is enabled by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.

  1. On the FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 Server Administration site, check to see that the Web site you created is listed in the Virtual Servers section.

  2. To extend the Web site, click the Extend link next to the name of the Web site.

  3. To specify an administrator account for the extended Web site, type the administrator name in Administrator user name.

  4. Click Submit.

  5. The FrontPage 2002 Server Administration tool adds FrontPage Server Extensions template directories to the content directory of your extended Web site, and adds other files that contain metadata.

Publishing a Web site

If your Internet service provider (ISP) has FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft installed, you can publish to the Web server by using HTTP. Otherwise, you can use FrontPage to publish your Web site to a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server.

Note

If you publish to a location on your local computer, your Web site will not have the full FrontPage functionality unless your computer is a server that has FrontPage Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft installed.

To publish to a Web server by using HTTP

  1. In Microsoft FrontPage, on the File menu, click Publish Web.

  2. In the Publish Destination dialog box, do one of the following:

    • Type the location of a Web server.

      -or-

    • Click the drop-down arrow to select a location to which you have already published another Web site.

      -or-

    • Click Browse to find the publishing location.

    Note

    If you have previously chosen a publishing destination for this Web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear; proceed to step 4.

  3. Click OK.

  4. Specify the pages you want to publish by clicking Options in the Publish Web dialog.

  5. Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:

    • Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.

    • Under Changes, specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.

    • If you want to create a log file for the changes made during publishing, select that check box.

  6. Click OK.

  7. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.

  8. Click Publish.

    Note

    If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination Web server.

FrontPage publishes your Web site to the Web server you specified. If you want to verify that your Web site was successfully published, click the hyperlink that is displayed after the Web has been published — your Web browser will open to the Web site you just published.

To publish to an FTP site

  1. In FrontPage, on the File menu, click Publish Web.

  2. In the Publish Destination dialog box, type the location of the FTP server, or click the drop-down arrow to select a location to which you have already published another Web site.

    Note

    If you have previously chosen a publishing destination for this Web site, the Publish Destination dialog box will not appear; proceed to step 4.

  3. Click OK.

  4. Specify the pages you want to publish by clicking Options in the Publish Web dialog.

  5. Click the Publish tab, and do one or more of the following:

  6. Under Publish, specify whether you want to publish only pages that have changed, or all pages.

  7. Under Changes, specify how you want FrontPage to determine which pages have been changed.

  8. If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, select that check box.

  9. Click OK.

  10. To publish subwebs, select the Include subwebs check box.

  11. Click Publish.

    Note

    If you cancel publishing in the middle of the operation, files that have already been published remain on the destination FTP server.

  12. FrontPage publishes your Web site to the FTP server you specified.